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Children’s Action Network (CAN) is using the power of the entertainment community to increase awareness about children’s issues and to make them a top priority in everyday life.

Republicans have no firm plan for replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Many women are concerned an ACA repeal will have a negative impact on their reproductive health. For women, one of the biggest benefits of the Affordable Care Act has been access to no-cost birth control. Republicans don't need to repeal Obamacare in full to deny women access to no-cost contraception. Rather, they need only to remove birth control from the list of preventative services providers are required to cover without co-pay. HealthCetera's Barbara Glickstein interviewed certified nurse midwife Christa Palancia Esposito C.N.M., M.S. on the impact on girls and women if the birth control mandate is repealed. Ms. Palancia Esposito is a Visiting Instructor at Fairfield University Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies. She is a practicing nurse midwife at Women’s Health Care of Connecticut in Trumbull, CT.

December 2016, the U.S. Department of Veterans […]

Medicaid, which is jointly funded by federal and state tax dollars, covers more than 73 million Americans. Many GOP and Democratic states agreed to expand Medicaid under the health law. The incoming administration has stated an interest to restructure how Medicaid coverage for poor Americans is financed by giving block grants of money to states. HealthCetera's Kristi Westphaln,PNP, #AdverseEffects segment reports on the potential impact of restructuring how Medicaid is financed and the potential impact this might have on providing health care access to children insured by Medicaid.